ASIAN Geographic is looking for special photographs from both talented amateur and professional photographers that capture a striking image of Asia’s land, people, architecture or wildlife.

Prizes worth a total of over S$20,000 will be awarded to one winner and one runner-up from each category, plus a grand prize for the best overall picture entered.

The top photographs will be exhibited as part of an ‘Asia Without Borders’ Photography Exhibition in Singapore and published in the December Photo Annual Edition of ASIAN Geographic Magazine.. Enter Now!

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First Prize Image in the Earth Hour Photo Contest (Gil Francis Maningo)

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2nd Place Prize

4th Place Prize

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Well, well, what do we have here? It seems Nikon’s still unannounced D5000 can’t seem to wait for an official unveil. Israeli site DTown has published what appears to be legit press photos for the DSLR, with its articulating display vividly highlighted. Also take note the lens being shown is a 18-55mm VR, which is Nikon’s term for image stabilization — it looks like this might be what comes packaged in a bundle. Between this and the product page from earlier today, we think it’s safe to conjecture this little guy might be making an appearance at tomorrow’s Nikon press event. Check out another picture after the break, or hit up the read link for the full gallery.

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This is Yang from China Folklore Photographic Association (CFPA), organizer of the Humanity Photo Awards (HPA), the ONLY worldwide folklore photo contest. It is aimed to everyone who loves folkore cultures. This year, HPA is co-organized with the Guangzhou Asian Games Organizing Comittee (GUAGOC) and UNESCO.

In addition to the contest, CFPA will organize a folklore exhibition in the Guanghzou Asian Village for the 16th Asian Games. We hope we can include most of the countries in the World. We also will organize the winners of HPA2009 to shoot the view of Asian Games Stadiums during the openning ceremony and arrange them to come to Guangzhou in 2010 for Asian Games.(Air tickets and hospitality are afforded by CFPA) It is an unmissable chance for us to promote the folklore cultures of each countries. We have received a lot of photos from different countries so far but we are still missing photos from your country, so if you or any of your friends would like to promote the culture of your country, take a chance and feel free to join this contest.

Considering that postal mail might be too long for overseas participants and to encourage more nationalities to take part of HPA2009, the head office of HPA2009 has decided to postpone the entry deadline from 15th April to 25th May (The date postmarked by the Beijing Post Office will be the deemed arrival date).

This will give participants more time to prepare their photo entries and make sure their photo works arrive in China on time.

HUMANITY PHOTO AWARDS(HPA)2009

Collecting MEMORIES OF THE MANKIND

Background:
HPA2009 contest, co-organized by China Folklore Photographic Association (CFPA), UNESCO and Guangzhou Asian Games Organizing Committee (GAGOC), was formally launched on 16th September, 2008. It aims to call upon worldwide photographers, professional or amateur, to record the world’s folklore cultures, spread and share the diverse cultures among mankind. Under the support of GAGOC, A World Folklore Photo Exhibition will be held in Guangzhou Asian Village as the main cultural exchange activity of 16th Asian Games which will include the winners’ photos of HPA contests concerning 118 countries. The exhibiton photos will be selected from the entries of HPA2009. Therefore, we hereby invite you to participate in this worldwide event. Your outstanding work might be the ONE shown in the Gallery of 16th Asian Games and witnessed by the world.

About HPA:
1. The only world folk photo contest all over the world;

2. Launched by CFPA(China Folklore Photographic Association);

3. Co-organized by UNESCO and GAGOC;

4. Five successful contests in the past;

5. 94 nationalities have participated in the HPA contests;

6. Each entry should consist of a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 12 photographs;

7. Attractive bonus plus transportation fee and a 3-day hotel accommodation for the ceremony if you win the award;

8. 166 awards in total;

9. Famous and honest judges all from different nationalities.

Mission:
To call upon responsible photographers who respect life and love their life to take their cameras, in the context of special series of photographs;
To explore and rescue the endangered folklore cultures of all the world’s nationalities by means of photography; to profoundly record the changes and evolution of various folklore cultures in a genuine and vivid form;
To record, spread and share the multi-cultures of the world, to enhance mutual understanding and exchanges of human beings and to promote the world peace and development.

Schedule:
Submission deadline: May 25th 2009(The date postmarked by the Beijing Post Office will be the deemed arrival date)
Judging deadline: September 15th 2009
Press Conference Date: June 6th 2009 (will announce the host city)
Award Ceremony and WFPA (World Folklore Photographers Association) Opening Ceremony:
September 16th 2009
Tour Exhibition: September 2009—September 2011

Categories:
A. Portrait & Costume
B. Architecture
C. Living and Production Custom
D. Festivities
E. Education, Recreation, Sports & Technology
F. Traditional Rites

Awards:
Humanity Photo Grand Awards: 6 (one for each category)
Humanity Photo Documentary Awards: 60
Humanity Photo Nomination Awards: 100

How to participate in HPA 2009? Please view the link below:
(Please read Entry Rules carefully so that you can successfully participate in the contest)
http://www.china-fpa.org/

NEW : email entries accepted:
We will exceptionally accept entries coming from your email but considering the security of the Internet, we still encourage participants to send their photo works by post in case of the loss of your email. If you wish to send your entries through the Internet, we recommend you to send all your photos with the filled entry form to hpa2009@china-fpa.org through http://www.yousendit.com/.

The resolution should be no smaller than 300dpi and short size no smaller than 20cm.
Digital photos, editable caption in .txt or .doc file and entry forms should be saved together as a zip file.

Here is an example below for you to fill up your information we request on yousendit form:
To: hpa2009@china-fpa.org
From: your email address
Subject : HPA2009 Entry
Enter message: your name / your email address

CFPA (China Folklore Photographic Association)
CFPA (China Folklore Photographic Association)
Address: Suite312, Building14, Wen Huiyuan, Haidian District, Beijing
Mailing address: P.O. Box8006, Beijing 100082, PRC
Tel & Fax: (00)86 10 6225 2175
Email: hpa2009@china-fpa.org
Website: www.china-fpa.org/en

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Erwin Lims Photo at Tubbataha Reef

Philippine Airlines (PAL) submitted the photo as an entry to the ASEANTA Excellence Awards after it appeared in PAL’s inflight magazine, Mabuhay.

Erwin T. Lim, a 38-year-old dentist-photographer from Cebu City, captured the image while on a four-day live-aboard dive safari to the Tubbataha Reef. Erwin recounts, “The scene was so picturesque that I almost didn’t feel my skin burning under the heat of the sun. Lying flat on the sand, I slowly crawled my way toward the birds.”

Erwin’s photo, taken with a Nikon D200 camera using a 70-200 mm f2.8 VR lens, was one of the 10 finalists (landscape division, professional category) in the first PAL Photo Contest held June to September 2007. Mabuhay magazine featured the finalists in its April 2008 issue.

This time, the photo was picked among 40 entries that vied for seven awards recognizing excellence in tourism promotion in ASEAN.

“There were many good entries, but we could only give awards to the best-of-the-best,” said Felix J. Cruz, president of ASEANTA who is also vice president for marketing of Philippine Airlines.

Awards were also given to the best tourism article (”Penang Past & Present” from Silver Kris, Singapore), best tour package (”Intrepid: South East Asia” by Intrepid Ltd. of Thailand), best new tourist attraction (”Singapore Flyer”), best cultural preservation effort (”Cua Van Floating Cultural Center – Ha Long Bay Eco-Museum” from Vietnam) and best conservation effort (”A Journey to Keep the World Beautiful with Thai” by Thai Airways).

Through the awards, ASEANTA encourages tourism development and promotion among companies, organizations and individuals coming from ASEAN.

ASEANTA was formed in 1981 as the “umbrella” organization of national airlines and national travel agencies and hotel associations of the 10 ASEAN countries (Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam).